Switzerland: The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Jihad

What you would never know, from all this hand-wringing about "Islamophobia," is that only a few weeks before the conference, the country's media had reported on a popular imam in Biel who, in his sermons, "asked Allah to destroy the enemies of Islam -- Jews, Christians, Hindus, Russians, and Shiites."

The imam in question, Abu Ramadan, preached that Muslims who befriended infidels were "cursed until the Day of Judgment" -- which, of course, is not radical at all, but is straight out of the Koran.

The crisis is real. But, says Swiss Muslim author Saïda Keller-Messahli, Swiss politicians, "especially on the left," refuse to address it. Instead of trying to defend their country from radicalism, they think their job is to "protect minorities and multiculturalism."

Mosque kindergartens and youth groups, too, are "places of religious indoctrination" for Swiss Muslims. So are the German-speaking public schools, in which imams are permitted to teach classes in Islam using instructional materials from Saudi Arabia or Turkey.

If you listen to some of Switzerland's pollsters and government officials, the country is suffering from a serious and ever-intensifying crisis -- anti-Muslim bigotry.

In August, a study concluded that Swiss Muslims "are generally well integrated into Swiss society." Their main problem? They face "Islamophobia."

Another study the same month found that the percentage of Swiss non-Muslims who feel "threatened" by Islam had more than doubled since 2004, from 16% to 38%.

At a September 11 conference, Switzerland's Federal Commission against Racism (FCR) issued an explicit alert: "hostility toward Muslims," it warned, was rising – and was "fed by facts that have nothing to do with Muslims themselves."

What you would never know, from all this hand-wringing about "Islamophobia," is that only a few weeks before the conference, the country's media had reported on a popular imam in Biel who, in his sermons, "asked Allah to destroy the enemies of Islam -- Jews, Christians, Hindus, Russians, and Shiites." The imam in question, Abu Ramadan, preached that Muslims who befriended infidels were "cursed until the Day of Judgment" -- which, of course, is not radical at all, but is straight out of the Koran.

Abu Ramadan has been living in Switzerland for almost two decades. In 1998, he came to the Alpine country from Libya as an asylum seeker, but over the years has returned home several times -- in addition to visiting Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries. This fact should have automatically negated his right to asylum and resulted in his expulsion. But the years went by, and the government, ignoring the evidence right there on his passport, did nothing.

On the contrary: over the years, in fact, the Swiss state had given Ramadan the equivalent of $620,000 in welfare payments.

Reportedly, some public officials were well aware of his hate sermons -- but until the content of those sermons surfaced in the media, nobody in the government had made any effort to do anything about him. Instead, people such as Interior Minister Berset and the members of the FCR had kept busy going to conferences and tarring the general public as "Islamophobes".

At least one high-profile individual in Switzerland has long rejected the official line about successful Muslim integration and unfounded infidel Islam-hatred: Saïda Keller-Messahli. Of Tunisian descent, living in Zurich, she has spent years investigating institutional Islam in Switzerland and urging politicians to take action against it. Asked in a recent interview whether Abu Ramadan is an isolated case, Keller-Messahli said no: such preaching, she explained, is common in Swiss mosques, part of an international strategy to plant a "discriminatory" and "violent" Islam in Switzerland and elsewhere in the West.

Keller-Messahli has just published a book entitled, Switzerland: An Islamist Hub ("Islamistische Drehscheibe Schweiz"). It is sort of a field guide to Islam in Switzerland. The country's mosques belong to various networks based here and there in the Muslim world; many of the imams have been trained in Egypt or Saudi Arabia; many of the mosques receive funding -- and take orders -- from organizations in Turkey. In her book, Keller-Messahli draws all the connections, follows all the money trails, and spells out the poisonous articles of faith. And she prescribes strong medicine: monitor the mosques, cut off the foreign cash, and expel the preachers of jihad.

Saïda Keller-Messahli, the Swiss Muslim author of Switzerland: An Islamist Hub, has spent years investigating institutional Islam in Switzerland and urging politicians to take action against it. (Switzerland photo by Monk/Wikimedia Commons)

Keller-Messahli has not only probed the mosques. She has also visited prisons. In some of the prison libraries, she reports, she had found not a copy or two but hundreds of copies of pro-jihadist works. When she told a reporter that imams who work as prison chaplains are past masters at turning Muslim inmates into jihadists, and argued that the position of Muslim chaplain should therefore be eliminated, her interviewer asked whether that wouldn't amount to "unequal treatment." Keller-Messahli pointed out that the concept of prison chaplain does not even exist in Islam but "was invented precisely for the sake of equality."

Mosque kindergartens and youth groups, too, are "places of religious indoctrination" for Swiss Muslims. So are the German-speaking public schools, in which imams are permitted to teach classes in Islam using instructional materials from Saudi Arabia or Turkey: "All they do," complains Keller-Messahli, "is give them suras to learn by heart, the veil for the girls and the segregation of the sexes as soon as possible. And all the 'students' do is learn words without understanding them." The result: "social segregation, exclusion, contempt for women, honor crimes."

The crisis is real. But, says Keller-Messahli, Swiss politicians, "especially on the left," refuse to address it. Instead of trying to defend their country from radicalism, they think their job is to "protect minorities and multiculturalism." Keller-Messahli actually took part in the design and implementation of a course that warned prison employees about the dangers of Islamic radicalization. It was, she said, "a huge success" -- but an order by a Zurich court put an end to it. "Right and center," she laments, "politicians prefer to stay in their comfort zone and close their eyes."

Keller-Messahli does not mince words. The relentless spread of jihadist Islam in Switzerland, and the see-no-evil response by Swiss authorities, give her "a tremendous sense of betrayal. We trusted these people, we opened the doors of our country and our institutions. They say they want to be our partners in dialogue. But none of it is true." She reports that some Swiss residents with Muslim backgrounds have thanked her for speaking up and have told her that organized Islam does not speak for them. She is grateful for their support, she says, but she "would prefer it if they did not keep so silent."

The picture Keller-Messahli paints is a grim one. Is there any hope for change? Well, during the last few days it has become clear that at least some Swiss officials do not wish to remain silent about the enemy within. On September 21, it was reported that federal prosecutors had brought charges against the president and two members of the board of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS), the country's largest Islamic organization. The charge: making videos in Syria featuring a top Al-Qaeda member and posting them on YouTube and other sites.

Only days later, the lower house of the Swiss parliament voted by a narrow margin to prohibit mosques from taking foreign money and to require that imams preach in the local language. The upper house has yet to debate the bill; the Federal Council, which constitutes the government's executive branch, opposes the measure on the grounds that it places Muslims "under general suspicion" and "fuels the argument of extremists."

It will be interesting to see where these developments lead. Will the bill pass the upper house? Are federal prosecutors looking into non-ICCS mosques? Stay tuned.

Bruce Bawer is the author of the new novel The Alhambra (Swamp Fox Editions). His book While Europe Slept (2006) was a New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

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24 Reader Comments

Nils Eric Sundin • Oct 15, 2017 at 11:58

There are only two sources of Islam. The Quran as well as the biography (Sira) and the stories (Hadiths) of resp. about Muhammed.

Saïda Keller-Messahli who is mentioned in the Gatestone Institute article (link above) is no source of Islam.

She has worked for the Swiss government and founded in 2004 "the forum for a progressive/modern Islam" that is said to promote "a liberal Islam".

However, Islam can by no means be changed since it is the words of Allah and there is no authority that has the right to change anything of it (anything in the scriptures mentioned).

Therefore, I don't see anything positive in the existence of "the forum for a progressive/modern Islam" but in the contrary something negative.

It gives nothing but false hopes and is therefore very dangerous since it suggests that a modernization of Islam to make it liberal/peaceful is possible but that is obviously not the case (see above).

Islam will remain Islam as we know it (since ~1400 years) and it is anything but liberal/peaceful.

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Erwin Hodel • Sep 29, 2017 at 18:12

My impression is that none of the other comments came from a Swiss citizen. Although the author of this article delivered a profound insight into the present state of islamist activities in Switzerland, he forgot to mention the background of most Muslims in my country. The majority of Swiss Muslims stem from the Balkans and the second-largest group from Turkey. Especially the first ethnic group are not known to be prone to extremist Islamic views. My own neighbours to the left and right of my apartment are Turks. Although my guess is that the male members of this families don't share western views on how to treat women, these people are otherwise state-of-the-art examples of integration.
In other words, the cultural background makes the music: there are not many people from Arab countries in Switzerland. Even less if you look out for Afghans or Pakistanis.As for the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland, two out of three of their leading members now under investigation are Swiss citizen who converted to Islam.
Saida Keller-Messahli's assessment is basically right but it concerns a minority of die-hard Muslims in my country. The large majority of the Swiss Muslims have nothing in common with these extremists. Therefore, Switzerland is one of the few countries in Europe where the term Islamophobia is justified.

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Ulli Vollmer Erwin Hodel • Oct 17, 2017 at 04:21

The term Islamophobia is also in Switzerland not justified. Islam doesn't stand for peace, it stands for hate, violence and death.

"The large majority of the Swiss Muslims have nothing in common with these extremists."Maybe, but do they take a stand against the extremists? Except for a hand full like Saïda Keller-Messahli they don't.How can we non Mohammedans then know what they want, if they are being quite or even behind the scenes more or less actively supporting the further Islamisation of Switzerland.As a Swiss/Swede, I can tell you that in Sweden the population slept too long, the situation in Sweden has become extremely bad (it is easy to see, figure out).

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Chandra Segaran • Sep 29, 2017 at 07:51

All this Islamic appeasement is due to damaged brain of some politicians unable to deduce right from wrong. Beware so long as these politicians are re-elected to govern they will drive you through to hell with their lopsided views.

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UNCLE VLADDI • Sep 28, 2017 at 23:37

These leftopaths want to pity everyone as an equal victim, both the predatory criminal aggressors and their innocent victims alike, while calling those who get angry with criminals and their crimes, in an attempt to solve problems and prevent crimes, "hateful" for daring to accuse the criminals of their crimes. When they make hate into a crime, they really make it illegal to hate crimes and the criminals who commit them.

This happens on the individual, familial, clan, tribal, national and international levels, in private industry, in the education and judicial systems, in government, among nations and in global finance.

So why is useless static fear-focused PITY and suicidal masochism always being endorsed as the highest moral virtue, while useful and hope-focused dynamic anger (aka "HATE!") being derided as the worst of all sins
everywhere all the time?!

(Both are emotions, which means idolatries - removed from and pre-empting rational fact-based logical thinking of the individual causes and effect involved in each separate set of situational circumstances; as such, they are by definition pre-judicially biased bigotry and psycho-pathic exercises in thought-killing. But only libertine "liberal" criminals insist they have they right and responsibility to try to both pity criminals as fellow victims, AND also to be angry, all the time - at least at those who refuse to pity every one and every thing as equal victims, too! Rational conservatives show both compassion and anger only where it's earned, case-by-case).

Well, for individuals, showing pity (aka compassion and tolerance) goes along with our innocent-until-proven-guilty memes, and more importantly is allows people to virtue signal while simultaneously avoiding the risk of endangering them selves personally by daring to accuse potentially dangerous and violent criminals of their crimes.

In short, it's an obvious exercise in hypocrisy.

But why is such dangerously retarded behaviour allowed on a global scale, one might ask?

Simple!

Banksters always support both sides in every given conflict, because then the losers will still owe them and the winners, the winners will still owe them, and both will want to borrow even more money for the reconstruction efforts to repair all the destruction they mutually caused.

And while law-abiding conservatives want nothing more than to be left alone to literally mind their own businesses, supporting the predatory criminally aggressive libertine "liberal" criminals is a much more lucrative venture for the banks, simply because there's no money in solutions!

Whee.

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Crickets • Sep 28, 2017 at 15:29

Who will eventually have to protect you when YOU become one of the minorities? And when they do takeover (Jihad and liberalism) you will not have multiculturalism either.

Why has the West become so insanely dumb when dealing with her survival?

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Anne • Sep 28, 2017 at 13:41

About Islam read and learn...Read what an X-Muslim has to say about this whole Islam and Muslim business. ..It's time for all nations to wake up to the fact that Muslims are NOT invading to assimilate and live peacefully. Consider this:Wake up America! From a Muslim's mouth... By Teresa Nolivo. The following reveals the truth of the most diabolical group on the planet who take advantage of anyone who are foolish enough to allow them to.
The truth of Islam Jihad, Sharia Law, ISIS, AND Hijrah. This is his story:I was born and raised a Muslim. My whole family is still Muslim; I know every genetic code of Islam because I have been fully indoctrinated, and I know and understand the Islamic brain.I live and breathe with them, but I am now an insider. I left Islam once I understood that Islam is a sick and evil power that thrives on death, even the death of their own family members.
The following is the Islamic message to the United States Of America.To the infidels of the West,
We will fight you infidels to death while your own laws protect us.Your Democrats and your news media will support us.N.G.O. ( Non Governmental Organisations) will legitimize us.(C.A.I.R.); The ( Council on American–Islamic Relations) will incubate us.The A.C.L.U. (American Civil Liberties Union) will empower us.Western Universities will educate us...for free.U.S. Mosques will shelter us.O.P.E.C. The (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) will finance us.Hollywood and their foolish celebrities will love us.Kofi Annan and most of the United Nations will cover us.Our children will immigrate from Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Indonesia and even from India to the US and to the other Western countries. They will go to the West for education and be given full scholarships. America is paying and will continue to pay for our children's education and their upbringing in state funded Islamic schools.We will abuse your welfare system because you will allow us to. Our children will also send money home while they are preparing for Jihad. We will take full advantage of American kindness, gullibility, and compassion, and when the time comes, we will stab you in the back.
We will say one thing on the camera and teach another thing to our children at home. We will give subliminal messages to our children to uphold Islam at any cost. Our children in America will always care more about Islamic Country's interest than US interest.We will teach our children Islamic supremacy from their very childhood. We will teach them not to compromise with the Infidel. We do this from a very early age so our children won't hesitate to be a martyr.
We will take over the Europe first and then the US will be next. We already have a solid ground in the UK, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Germany, and we are now in the United States working diligently for the day when we overtake your country.Your news media at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS; and others will paint a deceptive picture portraying Islam as a victim of US and Israeli oppression. The lying news reports will spread like wildfire saying " American military killed 10 Muslim babies, the Jews killed two Muslim women", We will use these lies to turn your own people against you, and many of them will march in the streets, burning US flags and destroying cities as the sympathize with Muslims.You will be impressed when you meet a moderate Muslim personally. As your next door neighbor, coworker, student, teacher, engineer, professionals you may even like us. You will find us well mannered, polite and humble that will make you say, wow, Muslims are good and peaceful people, but they will become vicious and violent when the call for Jihad sounds. Massive emigration into all countries across the globe known as Hiram; a Muslim invasion.
We will use your own laws and values of kindness against you. You are destined to lose... I copied and paste from a different story here is true. And so can you please copy and paste

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jayell • Sep 28, 2017 at 13:32

It seems like the Swiss are giving these Saudi Muslims such a ridiculously easy time that it's not so much a case of 'The Hills are alive with Sounds of Jihad', more 'The Hills are a Skive for the Hounds of Riyadh'. (Sorry about that!). Seriously, what's wrong with these Swiss people? Have the cuckoos escaped their clocks and invaded their heads?

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Ronald Brauer • Sep 28, 2017 at 13:24

Islamic immigration to Europe is the modern day Trojan Horse. It will be revealed by the demographic time bomb. It breaks my heart that Switzerland is being destroyed from within by surrealistic politically correct mass mind control that has welcomed the destroyer of my ancestral homeland. I pray for Switzerland and Europe.

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John S • Sep 28, 2017 at 12:15

The Left is the same in Europe, the USA, Asia, etc. Their motto is "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". The left's enemies are Christianity, Conservatism/Libertarianism, sovereignty, etc. All these views, which are the opposite of collectivism, represent a thorn in their side to have a One World Government. Therefore, they will do anything to remove obstacles to their path, including even supporting radical Islamists who will, in turn, one day cut their heads off. It's exactly the same as when the Communists came to power in Russia 100 years ago. Among the very first persons the communists killed when they came to power were their supporters who got them to power. Simply because (human nature), the communists did not trust anyone who wasn't loyal. The Left of today is just as disposable by their leaders.

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Walter • Sep 28, 2017 at 12:08

Great article. Two Muslims: The good Saïda Keller-Messahli and the bad imam Abu Ramadan. Both represent ISLAM: The Quran and the Sunna. Yet, their ideology and works are totally different. How come? Keller-Messahli follows the Mecca Quran whereas the imam follows the Medina Quran. One Quran, two contradictory books. In Mecca Mohammed is portrayed as the prophet who preaches peace and love even towards the Jews and Christians. In Medina he becomes a politician and highly successful warrior and Jihadist in the name of Allah. His new command to the Muslims: Conquer the Non-Muslims who refuse to submit to Allah by the sword - kill, behead, rape, enslave - until there is no disbelief anymore and the religion and worship is for no other God but Allah alone.The masses in Switzerland are slowly but surely waking up to the perils of political ISLAM, whereas most of the political and cultural elite prefer to repeat the mantra of political correctness over truth and reality. If you speak truth about ISLAM you are a bigot, hater, islamophobe etc. and risk being punished. Welcome to BIZARRO WORLD.

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Jack Thomas • Sep 28, 2017 at 12:00

Hitler's ideology was banned, yet the apologists for the deranged, depraved sect of Islam see no harm with it. Europe's governments are ruled by leftist, who never let fact, reason, logic, nor law interfere with ideology. This is a good definition of insanity, and the Swiss government is, no doubt, ruled by the insane.

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John Cox • Sep 28, 2017 at 10:29

Another Sweden in the making.

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Mary Houghton • Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25

Had the U.K. and the rest of Europe nipped any misbehaviour by Muslims from the get go, they would not have felt so emboldened to progress as far as they have. How did we get to the point where halal food is served in our schools and offered in many fast food outlets. How did we get to the point of allowing hate preachers standing and screaming against "the infidels" whilst our spineless police just stood by smirking at the oh, so kooky, harmless men threatening to slaughter non-believers. They represent a very tiny minority in Europe but look at the phenomenal power they exert. Let's say the average European country (apart from France & Germany) has about 5% Muslim population. One can only imagine the power they will acquire when they reach (not if, when) 50% of the population. Many schools in London/Birmingham are 100% Muslim, and yet when a school is 100% it is lambasted by officials for not being diverse enough. These extreme wing people live on a different planet to most normal people, and I really do fear that once they open their eyes and see what damage has been done by them it will be way too late to do anything about it.

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C. Weir Mary Houghton • Sep 28, 2017 at 12:18

This is what happens when a society is ruled by political correctness. P.C. obscures/denies reality, and persecutes those who try to raise red flags. Multi-culturalism doesn't make a society safer from extremist viewpoints, actions. It makes the society more vulnerable, dangerous. The leaders of countries, including police/law enforcement agencies, are primarily concerned with keeping their jobs. No one wants to be accused of being "racist," "islamaphobic," etc. I fear that this problem is already making inroads into American culture. Will America's leaders, young people wake up to these inconvenient realities in time? It's going to take more than "love," "being nice." We are going to have to say no--no more mosques--you will be sent back if it is known you have jihadist mentality and/or connections. No to sharia law infiltrating our justice systems. No to teaching only a white-washed, positive version of Islam in the public schools,etc.

When will the West finally understand that the Caliphate has been established in their back yard.

But if they don't care, why should we?If they refuse to see the facts, let them eat the poison ivy.When they refuse to act, let them go under.

Islamization of the West is G-d's revenge for the Holocaust and the murder of 6 million innocent Jews.

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Henry tiki • Sep 28, 2017 at 21:18

Tiki, you are correct. Weak humans can't survive. It is a pity that the Western democracy has transformed itself into the caricature of liberty, no-freedom-of-speech, pro-Islamic, Marxist-feminist conglomerate; however this is how the history unfolds. I do agree that the West is paying for the murder of 6 million innocent Jews. The problem though that Jews are under threat again.

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Lorelei Vision • Sep 28, 2017 at 10:00

It's too late for the European Continent. They've been infiltrated. Most importantly, they've allowed themselves to be infiltrated by the Horde and those few that are awake and aware to the slaughter are verbally strait-jacketed with leftist PC Propaganda. For good measure, most of Europe kicked God off their land. Now look what has replaced God, the Satanic Cabal seething and gnashing their teeth, awaiting the time that they can kill all the infidels.

What a mess! I pray for Europe, but I fear it is too late for them no matter how loud a few beat the drum or blow the horn. Europeans won't be able to get their nations back without a bloody fight, if they get them back at all.

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David Ashton • Sep 28, 2017 at 08:57

An excellent review of a most important research work that requires comparable detailed investigations in other nations. Question is: who will read it and who will act upon it?

There will always be those who cannot tell the difference between a pineapple and a hand-grenade, so to speak.

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jeb • Sep 28, 2017 at 07:59

Here again we have an example of a double standard imposed by secular liberal socialists who believe Islam is more compatible with socialism than other religions and discriminate accordingly. They will defend sharia institutions with the same bias they persecute or attack the church. See Marx and Islam, Oxford dictionary on line. In the USA behind the false positive moderate Muslims are hurt by defining radical Islam and affirming that without reforms Islam does not qualify as a religion at all but is a religious/political totalitarianism. Liberals like totalitarians, they still see no value in having removed a mass murdering tyrant like Hussein advocated the withdrawal of all US forces and are responsible for the crisis is Syria and Iraq today. And that is just one example.

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Hanna • Sep 28, 2017 at 06:30

All I can say about this depressing article is --- IT IS TIME FOR ALL JEWS TO LEAVE SWITZERLAND!!! In fact, it is time for all Jews to leave Europe, AGAIN... As for the so--called "politicians" --- they too will be sorry one day, after they will be forced to convert to Islam, or else... Switzerland used to be a nice little country at one time, with many happy people. No more, IT IS TOO LATE. This is one way to destroy a country --- how stupid is that??? Thank you Bruce Bawer and Gatestone.

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Jeff Page • Sep 28, 2017 at 05:31

This is another warning that the leftist apologists for Islam are refusing to take action against. Just as in other European countries, they assume that any fears are unfounded. They themselves can see the evidence, and yet seem to interpret this evidence in an entirely different way to their citizens. They don't appear to realise that it is their citizens that have to live with Muslims who are displaying their hatred and indifference to European culture and practices. How these so, called, elitists can see better just what is happening on the streets and in the Islamic places of worship and still maintain their ignorance is amazing!

It's almost as if they need to have a knife to their throats before they open their eyes to the problems Islam is bringing to Europe. Muslims bring their baggage with them, they bring their belief and culture, they bring their resentment for Christianity right into the heart of the very people showing them kindness and welcoming them. They laugh in secret, they laugh out loud, they laugh at our weakness.

Western politicians have welcomed a religion that encompasses the whole of a Muslims life, there are variations, but hardline Islamists are at work and basically controlling the majority of Muslims by fear, threats to life, and yet the authorities in Europe ignore this, they actually think that this control is a good thing. They don't realise, it is also a very great danger. This is just another article exposing real problems in Europe that are being totally denied and ignored. We hear more stories every day, and still, nothing is done

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Docvisuals • Sep 28, 2017 at 05:28

Saudi Petrodollars bought Geneva and Switzerland back in the 1970s. The Europeans have been bowing and scraping ever since. The harvest sown is being reaped.

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David Ashton Docvisuals • Sep 28, 2017 at 13:13

The West should never have become increasingly beholden to Muslim regimes but instead have gradually developed alternative sources of supply. So far as Saudi Arabia goes it now appears to be making a rapprochement with Israel versus Iran, while still funding madrassas in Europe.

Robert Levinson, 67, an American citizen, is a retired DEA and FBI agent. In 2007, while researching a cigarette smuggling case as a private investigator, he was abducted in Iran and has since been held hostage.

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